Explore our Moon!

A curated page of resources to learn and share how countries worldwide have explored our stellar cosmic companion.

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Our Moon is a unique place to answer fundamental questions about our Solar System and also help enable sustained human presence in space. Over years, I’ve been writing accessible stories about the Moon’s said value for as broad an audience as I can. I’ve placed all that work together in context on this curated Moon page, along with several external resources, to provide a good entry point for people from all backgrounds to learn about our Moon and its specific themes, and evangelize its continued exploration. I hope you like my labor of lunar love.

Jatan Mehta

Note: You can also click on the images to open the respective links. (Since this is a visual browsing page, image credits are inside the links.)

Look up to our Moon

Why explore our Moon
Our Moon is valuable even beyond itself ✨
Luna Sights – A visual tour of our Moon, at scales big and small
Book: Our Moon, by Rebecca Boyle

Programs and global progress

How the Apollo missions transformed our understanding of the Moon’s origin
Artemis II flew four astronauts around the Moon
The Soviet Luna landings
Deep dive into India’s Chandrayaan Moon missions
KPLO, South Korea’s first Moon mission
Blue Ghost 1, the first successful private Moon lander
China’s lunar leaps and fetched samples
JAXA’s SLIM lander sparked an era of precision landings
How engineers test Moon landers on Earth
How India-US and India-Japan have collaborated to select lunar landing sites

Lunar science

How NASA and India discovered water on the Moon
Moon mountains are a marvel of instant formation
Visualizing a new Moon based on scientific discoveries by China’s Chang’e 6 mission
Ultimate guide to water on the Moon and permanently shadowed regions
How China’s Chang’e 7 mission will comprehensively study lunar polar water

Lunar poetry


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Jatan Mehta


Globally published & cited space writer ~ Author of Moon Monday ~ Invited speaker ~ Poet 🌙

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